Do the devs play this game?

[Mirage]

Well, I can tell you I have 12 jobs @ lvl 95. What they are and other information is my secret though ;)

But are they all pimped out in awesome gear? Huh?!

What's your best geared job? Which items do you have? :p

And most importantly, did you magically generate them with super GM powers? >:o

[Zubis]

I'm Camate! /spartacus

Every person I know who works on a MMO either as a developer or a GM/Community Member has had to display a detailed knowledge and understanding of the game during their interviews; you really won't get the job without it. I don't think our Community Team's credentials are in any doubt.

The question you should be asking is not if the developers play, but if the operations team plays.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Well, I can tell you I have 12 jobs @ lvl 95. What they are and other information is my secret though

Auto-maxing them out on the test server doesn't count.
GM levels don't count either. >.>

[Taint2]

Wonder is any Dev team member has DRK unlocked?

[Quetzacoatl]

Wonder is any Dev team member has DRK unlocked?

They probably don't- they don't want to play jobs that kill themselves! I'm looking at you, Scarlet Delolium.

[Camate]

But are they all pimped out in awesome gear? Huh?!

What's your best geared job? Which items do you have?

And most importantly, did you magically generate them with super GM powers? >

Yes, they are all pimped out and I took many years to do this lol

[Kalilla]

Do you like to melee, tank, or be a mage more? (mage can be any kind)

[Chriscoffey]

Wonder is any Dev team member has DRK unlocked?

I bet the old development team did. You should know this from experience Taint.

[Camate]

Do you like to melee, tank, or be a mage more? (mage can be any kind)

I'd have to say my favorite role is tank.

[hideka]

Well, I can tell you I have 12 jobs @ lvl 95. What they are and other information is my secret though

well not to be an ass, but your hand in development is simply just passing along information from side to side correct?

i would be interested to know if the actual Developers, the people who have their hands Directly on developing this game acutaly have as many Man hours invested in this game like us the players. im over 1700 days played amongst my accounts and ive been an active player since the game launched NA side, how many do they have?

i think it is a valid question to ask how many man hours of testing and balancing is spent on each individual job.
i spend quite a large deal of time on all jobs, and an equal ammount at that, aside from PUP BRD RNG.
some days it really feels like some jobs get looked at for a total of 1% of the total time spent towards job development.

if you look at it logicaly, theres about 3 months per update, so roughly 65 days, and about 520 working hours per person on development. now that leaves 26 hours of testing a job for 1 person for 1 of 20 jobs in a three month time frame.
you have 3 people developing jobs? that becomes 78 hours of testing a job. so on and so forth.

if you take that 78 hours and divide it up over 65 days..... that means they spend a grand total of 1 hour and twenty minutes per day on 1 jobs development.
the average player plays about 4 hours a day, and generaly sticks to one class ( even if they play multiple). so in one day, a player puts in tripple the ammount of gaming time on a job then that of 3 developers.

dont get me wrong, ive been seeing some great improvements to the game, but the same age old complaints that come from the player base are continually ignored.

my question is why?
why are the age old defects and complaints about this game still being ignored?

why is summoner, one of the highest tier damage dealing jobs in the final fantasy universe, the absloute weakest in final fantasy 11? i know bards who can CRUSH a summoners Damage out put. how the heck does that make a droplet of sense?????


why is warrior stronger then dark knight in every single aspect of physical combat, when darkknight, according to your own lore, an upgrade to offensive damage dealing from that of warrior?

why is scholar having almost all of its storm spells, and ALL of their helix spells (which are the spells that define the job) within sub job range, thus destroying their unique utility?

Why has pup still not been given access to more attachments, more unique frames and heads?

why has Paladin not been given Magic defense bonus, when they are hailed as masters of negating damage (your own words right there). why was fencer a sword and shield job trait given to Warrior instead of paladin, when warrior has absolutely NO USE for a sword and shield combo?

why are most T1 merits useless?

why do certian merits completely outshadow other merits?

why does astral flow do less damage then my merit blood pacts? why are my merit blood pacts STILL my strongest source of offensive damage ?

why does blood weapon only last for 30 seconds? why has it not been adjusted to last based on WEAPON DELAY? or had its duration universally extended but the ammount drained based off of weapon delay?

why is there only 1 10 minute spawn for T2 VNMs when they are so sought after because of low convert rates?

why am i still having to kill 50+ T1 AVNMs to get a convert?

theres a whole lot more "why" and i think people should speak up more often :/

oh and by no means was this meant to be a " my job needs more ubar-ness, plz halp!!" post. this is just regarding the generaly poor balancing in this game.